Category: Social Care

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Care of the Elderly Healthy Settings Licensing Local Government Planning Social Care

Care and support reform implementation

By Local Government Association (2014)

Catering for the health and care needs of our growing and ageing population is a national priority. Reforming our care and support system is vital for us to be able to meet this challenge. The Local Government Association (LGA), Association of Directors and Adult Social Services (ADASS) and Department of Health are working in partnership to support local areas in implementation of the care and support reforms in the context of the other changes and challenges for local health and care systems, including the Better Care Fund.

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Finance Public Mental Health Social Care

London mental health: the invisible costs of mental ill health

By Greater London Authority (2014)

The report investigates the scope and scale of mental ill health in London, to highlight the wider impacts beyond those to health and social care. These wider impacts result in around £26 billion each year in total economic and social costs to London and impact every facet of the community.

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Learning Disabilities Patient Satisfaction Public Mental Health Social Care

Autism – Quality Standard

By NICE (2014)

The provision of services for people with autism is varied across England and this quality standard is designed to standardise and improve the care and management of autism. It covers autism in children, young people and adults, including both health and social care services.

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Public Mental Health Safeguarding Social Care

Monitoring the use of the Mental Capacity Act Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards in 2012/13

By Care Quality Commission (2014)

This report into how the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards have been applied during 2012/13 cites concern that the MCA is not understood and implemented consistently across health and social care services. It announces that checks on implementation of the MCA will become a routine part of hospital and care home inspection. It also recommends that NHS England should include an expectation on the effective use of the DoLS into the standard contract for providers.

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Public Mental Health Social Care Well-Being

Welfare advice for people who use mental health services: developing the business case

By Centre for Mental Health (2013)

This report calls for every mental health service to secure specialist welfare advice to help to support recovery and to intervene early when difficulties emerge. It recommends that health and social care commissioners should ensure that their plans include welfare advice provision and that the government should consider including welfare advice in its outcomes frameworks for the NHS, social care and public health.

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Health Protection (Emergency planning Healthy Settings seasonal mortality) Secondary Care Social Care

The state of health care and adult social care in England 2012/13

By Care Quality Commission (November 2013)

This year’s State of Care report looks at the pressures on A&E services due to an increase of admissions for ‘avoidable’ conditions. It also brings together the findings of more than 35,000 inspections to try and give a picture of the quality of health and social care services in 2012/13.

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Good Practice Healthy Settings Integrated Care Licensing Planning Secondary Care Social Care

Four nations united: critical learning from four different systems for the successful integration of social care and health services

By Association of Directors for Adult Social Services (2013)

This paper originated from discussions on best practice which took place at an ADASS seminar. It aims to provide staff across key services with an accessible and practical overview of best approaches to the challenge of successful integration.

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Social care and obesity: a discussion paper

By Local Government Association (2013)

This discussion paper considers the impact that obesity has on social care and the challenges facing social care now and in the future.

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Community Healthy Settings Integrated Care Licensing Planning Social Care

Leading improvement across the continuum: skills, tools and teams for success

By Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence (October 2013)

This guide provides two frameworks for conceptualising and planning improvement activities. The improvement continuum describes four categories of improvement activities: topic or microsystem, care co-ordination, defined population and community health. For each of these categories, the framework describes the skills, tools and teams that lead to successful improvement efforts. The guide also includes a leadership action model and a framework for how to use the improvement continuum.

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Healthy Settings Integrated Care Licensing Planning Public Health Advice to NHS Commissioners Social Care

Principles for health and social care reform

By Solace (September 2013)

This report outlines the views of SOLACE members on the shape that health and social care reform should take going forward, outlining ten key principles which should underpin future reform. It places an emphasis on a move towards integrated care; shared commissioning; and shared management.

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